9/19/2021

The Gospel according to Mark … and the Second Misunderstanding (9:33–37)

“How can a man be happy when he has to serve someone?” (Plato, Gorgias 491e)

Mark: An Introduction and Commentary iv. The Greatest in the Kingdom (9:33–37)

a hint of rebuke in his use of the verb dialogizomai (discuss), which often implies argument as well as reasoning

Mark: An Introduction and Commentary iv. The Greatest in the Kingdom (9:33–37)

He sat down: this implies more than a wearied traveller composing himself. It means that the teaching rabbi is once more about to give instruction to his disciples.

Word Studies in the New Testament Chapter 9

As distinguished from other words in the New Testament meaning servant, this represents the servant in his activity; while δοῦλος, slave, represents him in his condition or relation as a bondman.